YPM ANT.257101

Basalt Sitting Figure from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection. Catalog Number: YPM ANT.257101 Description: Basalt sitting figure, 5 3/16' height, 3 5/16' width, dark brown, head with crest made up of 5 or 6 parts, carved hollows for mouth and eyes, ears protrude out at 90 degree angles from rest of head, hole through trunk of body from left to right, supports at base of piece. Late Post-Classic. Materials: Stone Function: Art Culture Group: Latin American : Mesoamerica Locality: North America; Mexico; Veracruz State Unit of measurement = millimeters 3D Reconstruction performed using Reality Capture version 1.2. 216 images captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections. http://copis3d.org/ This work has been made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor (award no. HAA-266508-19).